Grammar Girl here. I'm Injan Fogarty, and today I'm here with Hedwin Newton, who is an English teacher and translator in Germany, who was raised in a bilingual Dutch English household and is fascinated by contemporary English and the way English changes. She also runs a Dutch website

that helps Dutch people find English translations for difficult to translate words. But she's on

the show today because I absolutely love her email newsletter called English in Progress,

which comes out like every couple of months or so

and is filled with fascinating words, mostly new words and slang.

Edwin, welcome to the Grammar Girl podcast.

Thank you. It's so nice to be here.

Yeah. So you have your finger on the pulse of language changed.

And my first question is, where do you generally find

all this Gen-Z-Alpha slang that you include in your newsletter? Yeah, so it's a great question.

And the answer is definitely not from my own lived experience, because as people can probably

see and as people can probably hear, I have like the

wrong accent and the wrong age to be busy with slang at all. It's just it's my fascination,

but I like making people cringe by saying things like I was yapping with my bestie about new slang being so slay.

You know, I am not the right person for this.

So I do not like get it from from what I see in here around me.

So I really get it from other people.

I have a 17 year old nephew who is gold. He lives online and he's really

fascinated with language. So every time he hears about a new, interesting word, he will

WhatsApp it to me and send it to me and let me know. And I have Google alerts set up for anything you can think of that might have

to do with slang. So every time anybody writes a list with the 10 slangy words that your teenagers

say, but you don't understand them, here they are explained. So I basically read every single one of those articles.

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